As revealed by a leaked slide, Dell's Windows 8 plans include the launch of a 10-inch tablet running Microsoft's upcoming operating system. Interestingly-enough, although Windows 8 will be ARM-friendly the tablet Dell has in the works, named Latitude 10, is going to be powered by an x86 processor, more specifically, a dual-core Intel Atom (Clover Trail).

There are actually some successful tablet PC systems out there but these are targeted to a specific demographic. The more powerful the hardware the more you pay. For example, I have an Asus Eee Slate EP121 which has an Intel Core i5 470UM (1.33GHz - Turbo Boost up to 1.86GHz) CPU, 64GB mSATA SSD (upgradeable) and 12.1" LED widescreen display among other features. It’s a great product but not intended for general consumption because few people are going to lineup to spend over ~$1100 for such a device.

this thing wont be a hit, because of the lack of power. when it starts lagging on youtube and flash heavy websites, it'll get a bad rep.

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My initial thoughts are the same, but the Clover Trail is a new Atom processor (at least I haven't found much info on it) and should be around the 2.0 ghz range. Only 32nm though, have to wait for 2013 for the 22nm Atom.

Im sure there will be RDP applications built in. Im excited for this, most notably the removable battery in my opinion. With 8.5 hours of operation time (high end guesstimate, Im sure), I wouldnt mind carrying around an extra battery. 128G of SSD storage on a tablet is nothing to scoff at either.

Im sure there will be RDP applications built in. Im excited for this, most notably the removable battery in my opinion. With 8.5 hours of operation time (high end guesstimate, Im sure), I wouldnt mind carrying around an extra battery. 128G of SSD storage on a tablet is nothing to scoff at either.

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Yeah, a ~120GB mSATA SSD (the most likely upgradeable form factor of SSD for a tablet) isn’t cheap. Such an mSATA SSD used to start at about ~$230.

Interestingly-enough, although Windows 8 will be ARM-friendly the tablet Dell has in the works, named Latitude 10, is going to be powered by an x86 processor, more specifically, a dual-core Intel Atom (Clover Trail).

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Not surprising. Windows might support ARM, but the adoption will be slow until there is a decent amount of software that supports ARM for Windows.

this new Clover Trail atom cpu is what im most interested in. its supposed to a whole new architecture using out of order execution. clock for clock this will stomp all over brazos.

also note that current atom cpus already have a lower powerdraw than brazos. atom cpus have MAX TDP of around 10w. Brazos is AVERAGE TDP of 18w.

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what are you talking about? amd has 10w brazos they just run lower frequency, 1.3ghz or so
and remember they have a gpu on the chip as well
the 18watt parts are the higher end brazos that run at 1.6ghz and brazos 2.0 will run at 1.7ghz and have twice the radeon cores at the same power/thermal envelope
as for clover trail being a new architecture where did u hear that? as far as i know its only a die shrink? because if atom can run at 2.0ghz then it would probably match the 1.7ghz brazos (assuming its only a die shrink but i may be wrong, if you have a link however it may be useful)

Yea but that includes the GPU as well not just the CPU, and we all know intels GPU vs AMD's is no where near as powerful.

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well as far as i know in the low power segment amd is better in cpu and gpu
brazos have higher ipc than intels atoms, though i hate how they seem to be slacking off and remain with the same 40nm brazos with minor tweaks in frequency and buffer gpu(but its still impressive how far they are getting with 40nm) when they shouldve improved the bobcat cores and kept that head start, i just hope they know what they are doing, otherwise fail amd -__-